Quotes for All
I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race. Ezra Cornell
The sisters worked from dawn to dusk. One of them was an idiot; she started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good. Eva Ibbotson
My girls are very fashionable. They have a very good eye for marrying style and fashion. Erykah Badu
I have six illegitimate children,\” Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke,\” the duchess said between clenched teeth. \”True, he apparently has the morals of a squirrel, but that’s my cross to bear. Eloisa James
A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,’ he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, ‘when he asks a very remarkable young lady to do him the honor of marrying him. And – ‘he somehow contrived to grin at me wickedly, ‘I usually get what I want, Miss Grahame,’ he added, and pitched over … Read more
I wondered what my father had looked like that day, how he had felt, marrying the lively and beautiful girl who was my mother. I wondered what his life was like now. Did he ever think of us? I wanted to hate him, but I couldn’t; I didn’t know him well enough. Instead, I wondered … Read more
There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man. E. W. Howe
. . . finally, I couldn’t imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . . Fyodor Dostoevsky
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. Friedrich Nietzsche
Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all. Franz Kafka